From owner-freebsd-net Fri Mar 26 7: 4:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66A5C1506E for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 07:04:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA23189; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:04:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:04:22 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199903261504.KAA23189@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Jim Shankland Cc: j@lumiere.net, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mbuf clusters and socket send buffers (was Re: 3.1-STABLE dies on 40+ connects) In-Reply-To: <199903260054.QAA22060@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> References: <199903260054.QAA22060@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > A thought related to this discussion: does it make sense to allow the > send buffers to be larger than the peer's advertised window size? > In other words, why "preposition" those bytes in the kernel before > the peer has indicated a willingness to accept them? No, it doesn't. Just ask Van Jacobson. Unfortunately, that doesn't get OUR TCP stack rewritten any faster. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message